The victim and a companion started fleeing, but Castaneda gave chase and struck the companion in the head with a bottle.

Castaneda was charged with assault and attempted robbery, said a spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr.

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Here’s a prescription for a jail stretch.

A pharmaceutical employee bilked her employer out of $20,000 over the course of 16 months with fraudulent business receipts, cops said yesterday.

Romie Jean-Charles, 30, who worked for Mylan Pharmaceuticals on Lexington Avenue near 43rd Street, handed in parking and meal receipts from April 2008 through last August, authorities said.

She was arrested last Thursday on charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records.

Brooklyn

A man beat up a woman at an East New York burger joint, authorities said yesterday.

Nelson Grant, 21, and a group of his pals came into the restaurant on Linden Boulevard near Pennsylvania Avenue at 1 a.m. Saturday and started arguing with a friend of the 18-year-old victim, sources said.

When the victim tried to break it up, Grant’s pals assaulted the woman, grabbed her by the neck and threw her into the wall, cops said. She suffered a fractured arm.

Grant was arrested Monday and charged with gang assault and harassment, said a spokesman for DA Charles Hynes. The cohorts are at large.

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He’s a thuggish hardhat with a hard head.

Johnny Farino, 48, assaulted a fellow construction worker in the Cobble Hill building where they were working, cops said.

Farino flew into a rage when he discovered the 31-year-old colleague had shut off the water at the building on Clinton Street near Kane Street at 11:45 a.m. Monday, sources said.

Farino allegedly socked the man in the face, causing injuries that required stitches.

Farino was arrested on charges of assault and harassment.

Queens

This perv needs a better m.o.

A would-be peeping tom was busted for attempting to digitally record a woman acquaintance in the restroom of her Woodside home, cops said.

The 19-year-old victim was about to enter the restroom when pal Luis Gonzalez, 33, asked if he could use it first in her apartment on 70th Street near Woodside Avenue on March 21 at 11:30 p.m., police said.

The woman heard plastic rustling behind the door. When Gonzalez emerged and she went in, she saw a cellphone camera poking out from the bag, sources said.

She picked it up and played back the footage, which showed Gonzalez positioning the phone at the toilet, cops said.

He was charged with unlawful surveillance, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.

Staten Island

He can run but he can’t walk a straight line.

A drunken motorist was busted after he slammed into three parked cars and tried to flee on foot in Willowbrook, authorities said yesterday.

Christopher Visanti, 29, was driving along Woolley Avenue near Purdy Avenue at 4 a.m. Monday when he lost control and plowed into the vehicles, sources said.

He tried to wobble off, but cops busted him nearby, police said.

A Breathalyzer test revealed Visanti’s blood-alcohol level was more than 1½ times the legal limit, court papers said.

Visanti was charged with DWI, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

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Two young thieves cleaned out a bagel shop and video store after breaking into the businesses in Livingston and West Brighton, authorities said yesterday.

Jaquan Hazel, 19, and Allen Booker, 18, allegedly smashed through a skylight and entered the bagel shop on Henderson Avenue near Davis Avenue just after midnight last Wednesday, cops said.

They swiped cigarettes, a computer and cash, cops said.

The pair struck again at 8 p.m. Sunday, climbing through a roof hatch at the video store on Broadway near Cary Avenue, according to court papers.

They swiped cash and fled, but were tracked down via video surveillance and arrested Sunday on burglary charges, said the DA’s spokesman.